Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — Home Cooking To Blame For Many Diseases [ARTICLE]

Home Cooking To Blame For Many Diseases

By Mrs. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, Author-Sociologist

Author- Sociologist

STOP COOKING FOR JOHN! THE HOME OF TODAY IS A PERMANENT CHECK UPON THE GROWTH OF HUMANITY. EVERY OTHER BUSINESS HAS DEVELOPED FASTER THAN THE ONE WE DO AT HOME. WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT. HOME COOK ING! THE RACIAL IDEA ABOUT HAVING PRIVATE COOKS PREVAILS AMONG MEN. BUT THERE ARE MORE DISEASES WHICH COME FROM BAD COOKING AT HOME THAN FROM ANY OTHER CAUSE. THE TENDER MASS OF SENTIMENT ABOUT WHAT WE CALL HOME COOKING IS THE WORST KIND OF TOMMYROT. I HAVE SEEN ON THE TABLES -IN MANY HOMES BREAD WHICH WOOLD EE A DISGRACE TO THE WORST BAKERS. s* * The growing -trade at the delicatessen stores is proof that the movement is already well st-iried to -free woman from her slavery. One big kitchen can do the work of fifty small kitchens; one ,cook can pres pare food for. thirty persons; three cooks for inanv hundreds.